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April 30, 2008
Lockheed Joins Northrop Grumman OCX Team

As speculated might occur, Lockheed Martin has joined the Northrop Grumman Corporation team competing for the GPS Next Generation Control Segment (OCX) Phase…

By Glen Gibbons


April 30, 2008
Galileo’s Drama: Different Set, Additional Actors, a New Play for Europe’s GNSS?

Passage of a new regulation on Galileo sets the stage for the next phase of the €3.4-billion satellite navigation system’s development under a…

By Glen Gibbons


April 30, 2008
Spirent Location Test System Adds W-CDMA, GSM Certification

Spirent Communications plc has announced that the Spirent UMTS Location Test System (ULTS) now supports full certification testing of 3G Partnership Project’s (3GPP)…

By Glen Gibbons


April 30, 2008
Atheros Introduces GPS Hardware/Software Combination

Santa Clara, California–based wireless/wired communications semiconductor manufacturer Atheros Communications, Inc., which acquired u-Nav Microelectronics last December, has announced its second-generation, single-chip GPS receiver,…

By Glen Gibbons


April 28, 2008
Russia Approves CDMA Signals for GLONASS, Discussing Common Signal Design

Nearly 30 years after the first launch of a GLONASS spacecraft, Russia is moving to add code division multiple access (CDMA) signals to…

By Glen Gibbons


April 27, 2008
Galileo’s GIOVE-B Satellite Opens New Era of GNSS Signals

Close up view of the payload fairing of the Soyuz-Fregat launcher carrying ESA’s GIOVE-B satellite, on the launch pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, prior…

By Glen Gibbons


April 19, 2008
GPS III Satellite Contract: An Undeclared Winner?

GPS III conceptual drawing, The Aerospace Corporation The Air Force has further delayed the announcement of its decision on who will be the…

By Glen Gibbons


April 17, 2008
Satellite Launch Will Aid DoD GNSS Users to Anticipate Space Weather Effects

Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, General Dynamics On Wednesday (April 16), a U.S. Air Force team successfully launched the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting…

By Glen Gibbons


April 16, 2008
ESA Creates Galileo Directorate, Appoints Oosterlinck

René Oosterlinck, ESA Galileo Director In an April 15 meeting, the Council of the European Space Agency (ESA) has created a Galileo Directorate…

By Glen Gibbons


April 16, 2008
NovAtel Offers GL1DE Technology for Precision Ag Guidance

NovAtel Inc. has launched its new GL1DE technology, the latest enhancement to the Calgary, Alberta, Canada–based company’s high-precision OEMV GNSS product line. GL1DE…

By Glen Gibbons


April 16, 2008
2nd Space Weather Enterprise Forum

The 2nd Space Weather Enterprise Forum will be held at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2008.  The event will…

By Glen Gibbons


April 14, 2008
Hemisphere GPS Announces Eclipse Developer Kit

Hemisphere GPS has released an OEM development kit for its Eclipse dual-frequency GPS receiver technology. Development kits allow product designers and system integrators…

By Glen Gibbons


April 11, 2008
IfEN Receives ESA EGNOS-Related Contract

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract to IfEN GmbH to develop a “New Generation” receiver breadboard for use at the…

By Glen Gibbons


April 8, 2008
GSA Releases Second Galileo SIS ICD

The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) has released a new version of the provisional Galileo Open Service Signal-In-Space Interface Control Document (SIS ICD)….

By Glen Gibbons


April 7, 2008
EADS Astrium Buys Surrey Satellite

SSTL Engineering Team with GIOVE-A at ESA Test Facility EADS Astrium has signed an agreement to acquire Guildford, United Kingdom–based Surrey Satellite Technology…

By Glen Gibbons


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